Catching Fire–Shifting Ikat in the Warp & Weft

$870.00

Full

Weaving

Brasstown

Week (Sunday-Saturday)

Ages

Aug

Sun

Aug

Sat

04:00

09:00

Schedule Type Title: Every Day of the Week

Schedule Description: Daily

Sessions: 7

Session Hours: 7.00

Program Area: Weaving

Instructor: Beth Ross Johnson

Studio/Location: Weaving Studio

Student Materials: Please bring the following: - graph paper notebook - favorite shuttles or other small tools - 2, 6" c clamps- if you have them

School Fee & Materials: FOLK SCHOOL FEE: $0-$35 5/2, 8/2 natural colored cotton merc. or unmerc. Selection of dark colored cottons 5/2 or 8/2

Instructor Materials: Instructor Fee: $14 blocks for tying shifting frames tying tape indigo, fiber reactive dyes handouts slide show

Equipment Needs: regular weaving studio weaving studio dye facilities (dish detergent, salt?) kasuri tools 6” c clamps or those other clamps- two per person

Skill Level: Intermediate

Total Materials Fees: $15-$35

Weaving Studio
1 FOLK SCHOOL RD
BRASSTOWN, NC 28902-8008

Description

Tie and dye simple ikat resists onto your warp and weft yarn. Using a variety of techniques, shift these patterns as you warp your loom and weave motifs resembling flames, waves, or clouds that travel across the fabric and can bend and curve. Intermediate levels welcome; students will learn a Japanese method of winding a warp, but should be comfortable threading a loom.

Wait List

Description
Map
Materials Fees
Instructor Bio

Tie and dye simple ikat resists onto your warp and weft yarn. Using a variety of techniques, shift these patterns as you warp your loom and weave motifs resembling flames, waves, or clouds that travel across the fabric and can bend and curve. Intermediate levels welcome; students will learn a Japanese method of winding a warp, but should be comfortable threading a loom.

$15-$35

Beth Ross Johnson has been working with ikat since the 1970s. She has had two extensive stays in Japan to study kasuri (Japanese ikat) and more recently has been exploring 18th century ikat from France and ikat woven in Mallorca. A regular instructor at the Folk School, she received an MFA from Georgia State University and weaves, researches, and teaches from her home in Black Mountain NC bethrossjohnson.com

Back

Cart

Item(s)	$0.00

Grand Total	$0.00